tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:36:07 +0000Darren, Kelly and Coryhttp://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)Blogger20125blogspot/MckinseyFamilyhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-8841647254790163575Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:40:00 +00002011-08-24T21:16:46.020-07:00 WOW! We just had the best time. What a hoot! If you ever get a chance to do the Hellgate Jet Boat Excursion in Grants Pass, Oregon then you have to do it! My friend Cindy recommended we do it. She was just visiting Grants Pass right before we left for vacation and she called me and said this was a "must do" while passing through. I really had never heard of such a thing and didn't know whathttp://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2011/08/hellgate-jet-boat-excursion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-6619976782243277764Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:32:00 +00002011-08-24T10:00:24.732-07:00 We had such a FULL day in Seattle I couldn't even keep my eyes open to write on my blog. We did the "touristy thing". I'm not too keen on doing that but when you only have one day to see a city you do what you need to do. The only other time when we did a one day sprint to see a city was when we were in New York City for the day in 2001. We started the day Riding the Duck. It is a vehicle http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2011/08/our-day-in-seattle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-135162169161890842Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:26:00 +00002011-08-21T21:38:35.071-07:00 We left the comforts of our small beach community and headed for the big city, Portland. We traveled up the coast for the wonderful scenery and we ended up covering over 274 miles of the 339 miles of Oregon Coast. We made two stops along the way. The Sea lion caves, which were not too exciting with most of the sea lions out of the caves during the summer months. The second stop http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2011/08/traveled-oregon-coast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-2671874374800270869Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:12:00 +00002011-08-15T22:04:04.509-07:00 What a lovely day. Not much going on and that was just fine with me. We started the day with having fellowship with our friends Tim and Kim Moore. Tim is the Pastor of the local First Baptist Church in Bandon. He has visited our home a few times and we were happy to see him in his own hometown. After our morning together we then headed out to visit one of the few working Lighthouses, Cape http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2011/08/our-day-in-bandon-oregon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-2050667889322131191Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:11:00 +00002011-08-14T20:58:57.000-07:00 We started out this day with nothing planned but to get to our next destination, Bandon Oregon. We also knew that from here on out it was ALL new territory for us but this day also turned into a day Darren could enjoy (yesterday being more my day). He saw some deer on the side of a mountain, we went to Elk Meadow and saw Elk roaming the land (boy was I glad Granny brought her binoculars), wehttp://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2011/08/traveling-hwy-101-northwest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-1158038367204978557Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:26:00 +00002011-08-13T20:07:47.116-07:00 Today we hit the road for the Northwest. I've been wanting to make this trip for some time. I think we've been talking about it for the last 2 years. I finally sat down and mapped out our destinations and was able to set the plan in motion. New places we'll visit: Willits, CA Bandon, OR Portland, OR Seattle, WA Vancouver, Canada Grants Pass, OR Along the way we will stop off at some http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2011/08/destination-northwest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-7708627288383255810Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:56:00 +00002007-12-08T22:58:39.979-08:00 Darren and I will have been married for 20 years come this November. It seems like the time has just flown by. I really feel loved and I couldn't imagine living this life with any one else by my side. We've been extremely blessed and we love spending time with our family and friends.http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2007/08/celebrating-our-20th-anniversary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-3015516586602331229Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:14:00 +00002007-11-13T21:31:25.508-08:00I surprised Darren with a 3 night stay in Hawaii. This beautiful shot was from our Hotel room. There's nothing like Hawaii. The smells, the sounds, the people, it's paradise on earth. We also found ourselves going to a Veteran's Ceremony at a cemetary on Veteran's Day. It was a great day to remember our Veterans. The rainbow was a wonderful addition to a wonderful get-away! I recommend it to http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2007/11/hawaii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-7120727708566998996Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:37:00 +00002007-11-04T17:44:53.229-08:00 I've had such a positive respone from my blog and a lot of you have told me you have subscribed. That's great! I promise this won't be anything but a catchup-with-the-McKinsey's venue. I also realized how hard it is to keep people up with what's been going on with us because of everyone's busy schedules so hopefully this will help. You might learn more than you ever wanted to know. The picturehttp://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2007/11/family.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-1884968363895147863Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:44:00 +00002007-10-27T17:00:09.626-07:00I'm stepping into the 40's this Saturday, the 3rd of November. I don't know why it feels like a leap. I've tried to ignore it but it doesn't matter, it's coming. Last year I had a wonderful surprise for my birthday. Nikki, my neice, put together an Amazing Race. We all raced around town collecting clues and completing challenges. And when I got to the finish there were the people I love the mosthttp://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2007/10/kellys-birthday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-2435355692336158702Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:59:00 +00002007-10-25T21:13:13.514-07:00Hanna and I were driving along and we saw this little puppy drinking from the gutter. We both said, "Ahhhh" and I pulled over and we picked her up. She is so adorable, as you can see, but we didn't have any intentions of keeping her until her cuteness took us over. We think she is a mix of pit bull and we don't know what else. We've decided to call her Brendle, Bren for short. So welcome our new http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-puppy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-4419679111815420710Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:38:00 +00002007-10-31T18:57:15.004-07:00We just got back from a trip to DRC, Africa. We went to support our good friends the Lowery's and to do some projects in the small village of Kikongo. This was our second time to the Congo. We went with our friends the Payne's and my niece Nikki. http://mckinseyfamily.blogspot.com/2007/08/we-just-got-back-from-trip-to-drc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kelly McKinsey)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147852866463880022.post-5555479612739376845Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:20:00 +00002007-08-14T07:32:21.205-07:00